From owner-cvs-all Thu May 18 14: 5:41 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DFF37B801; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA68709; Thu, 18 May 2000 14:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:05:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Archie Cobbs Cc: Bill Fumerola , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ucd-snmp Makefile ports/net/ucd-snmp/patches patch-al patch-am patch-an In-Reply-To: <200005182100.OAA18536@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 May 2000, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > This is -current, people are sort of expected to update it semi-regularly > > - I say just bump it even though the event happened 12 days ago, so it > > will work from now on, but not for people who have a system which landed > > in those 12 days. > > Theoretical question.. why is there any problem at all with bumping > the version whenver we want to? No code should break because all > comparisions should be '>=' (or '<=') instead of '=='. Right. In case what I said above wasnt clear I was advocating "bump __FreeBSD_version now and use that for the test in the port. For people who have a system dated in the past 12 days (time between API change and version bump used as a feature test for it), let the port stay broken for them" Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message